International migration, economic development & policy / Çaḡlar Özden and Maurice Schiff, editors.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Özden, Çaglar.

Schiff, Maurice W.

World Bank.

Series:

Trade and development series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration.

Emigrant remittances.

Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.

Physical Description:

xvii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

International migration, economic development, and policy

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : World Bank ; Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2007]

Summary:

International migration has become a central element of international relations and global integration due to its rapidly increasing economic, social, and cultural impact in both source and destination countries. This book provides new evidence on the impact of migration and remittances along several development indicators including innovative thinking about the nexus between migration and birth rates. In addition, the book identifies the effect of host country policies on migration flows, examines the determinants of return and repeat migration, and explores the degree of success of return migrants upon return on their country of origin.

Contents:

Global migration database

Quantifying international migration: a database of bilateral migrant stocks / Christopher R. Parsons, Ronald Skeldon, Terrie L. Walmsley and L. Alan Winters

Impact on development

The impact of remittances on poverty and human capital: evidence from Latin American household surveys / Pablo Acosta, Pablo Fajnzylber, and J. Humberto Lopez

Does work migration spur investment in origin communities? Entrepreneurship, schooling and child health in rural Pakistan / Ghazala Mansuri

Entrepreneurship, labor markets, and international remittances: evidence from El Salvador / Pablo Acosta

The demographic benefit of international migration: a hypothesis and its application to Middle Eastern and North African contexts / Phillippe Fargues

Host country policy effects

Immigration incentives and policy in Switzerland / Dominique M. Gross

The impact of an ex-ante job offer requirement on labor migration: the New Zealand-Tongan experience / John Gibson and David McKenzie

Return migration

Returns to overseas work experience: the case of Egypt / Jackline Wahba

Foreign-born migration to and from Norway / Bernt Bratsberg, Oddbjørn Raaum, Kjetil Sørlie.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780821369357

0821369350

0821369369

9780821369364

OCLC:

86110029